Have you ever bought a piece of technology because you had an accessory for it?

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The resolution of the cheap ones i'm looking at is really crap. You'd better bring a walking stick when navigating with them at night :)
Probably make a home-made sci-fi movie with one of those.
 

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Probably make a home-made sci-fi movie with one of those.
Frame rate is possibly 12fps for most of them as well, and most will be fairly low too (legal requirement in some places as militaries and such don't want such toys in civilian hands if they are good). Depending upon what goes if you want to do home made then you can make such a thing -- many older webcams have a infrared filter you can readily easily remove and possibly do a visual block (black bin bags are generally the first thing many note when they get an IR camera) and even augment with an IR lamp (use one with such gear and militaries note it as a big shoot me sign, hence passive and active).
 
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I bought a Sega Saturn a few years back because i had a action replay for it i had got in a game bundle of n64 stuff at a yard sale.I then of course decided to flash said action replay with pseudo Saturn kai and then last year also imported a Japanese 1st gen Saturn because i wanted a grey one.
 
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In before your first has a built in lead (like many, perhaps most, did).
especially "awesome" if you got a loose contact ("wackelkontakt") on one of the color channels
everything had a yellow tint
i remember silent service 2 had green water
norton commander was also not the signature blue/cyan
 

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especially "awesome" if you got a loose contact ("wackelkontakt") on one of the color channels
everything had a yellow tint
i remember silent service 2 had green water
norton commander was also not the signature blue/cyan
One of the computers in the university library had that. Nobody wanted to sit at it/use it. I had however discovered electrical tape (many years earlier actually) and thus had a fine screen.
 

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I got a killer deal on a Gameboy Player with disc from a local Facebook seller in 2017, and only paid $30 for them. So then I can to buy a GameCube to use it. Bought that from a friend at work for $50. Had both cords and controller, and worked fine, just a tad dirty. So $80 for the full setup wasn't bad in my eyes.
 
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